The success of open source software seems obvious to me — I started writing open source almost a decade ago now, and it couldn’t be clearer that the use of it creates an extremely healthy software and intellectual ecosystem. Despite this, I’m periodically shocked at how successful that it’s been. Years before we had the …
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Apple Meets the Little Guy
It has long been rumored that Apple is working on an Internet-based music-purchasing service. Many companies have tried this, and all have failed. The problem is usually a combination of anemic offerings, bad pricing, and harsh reproduction restrictions, with a lack of cooperation from the entertainment industry as the overall limitation. Apple seems to think …
Best. April. Fools’. Day. Ever.
I had nancies.org change its focus from Dave Matthews Band to John Mayer for the day. It took me about six hours this weekend to set up, but it was totally worth it. I mean, how often do you get to play a hugely-intricate prank on ~75,000 people? We got nearly 1,000 pieces of e-mail. …
Value America finally crawled into a hole and died. Thank God.
So, Value America has finally gone under. It’s about damned time. I’ve been a vocal opponent of Value America since shortly after they started, I don’t mind saying. They came into our town waving an “IPO” banner and I watched sucker after sucker line up and empty out their wallets. I had quite a few …
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In Wired.
Wow, it looks like I haven’t touched my site for a while, based on the dates on here. But, in reality, I’ve just been updating my cphack page. Anyhow, I’ve got a mention and a little quote in Wired. It’s in Elisa Batista’s 2nd-ever article for Wired, "Vendors Overwhelmed by ‘Love’." (Top of the 2nd …
After long last, there appears to be a real Charlottesville news website.
After long last, there appears to be a real Charlottesville news website. We’ve had The Daily Progress‘s extremely weak attempt at a site for about a year now, and The C-Ville Weekly does what they can, I suppose, but it’s not really a news website. And, to be fair, The Cavalier Daily does a bang-up …
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New Waldo.Net.
Wow, a new Waldo.Net! The old design was put up in January of 1998, 19 months ago, and it looked it. Rather than continue upkeep, I let it go to pot for a bit. Now it looks better than ever, IMHO. This is a preliminary version, run on a WinNT server. (Blech.) Soon, it’ll all …